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Infopath Rule didn’t execute properly

This note-to-self is because it’s a really odd behaviour from Infopath so it needs not to happens again if I encounter the same so that I avoid banging my head for hours like I did.

I created a field called Field1 in Infopath 2010 with a value, and then a rule on a Field1 using the value of Field2.

The rule just didn’t want to show the Conditional Formatting as expected, even though I could see that all values were correct.

Suddenly I notice this message on top of the new Field1 :

Google that error message “Control bound to missing field or group” and I stumbled on this same error in InfoPath dev forum which just told me to not ignore it. (link to forum : Binding Error for Control – InfoPath Dev).

Enabling the field to load the default value just did the trick and now my rule works fine.

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French native living in London, for over 10 years François built applications with the end-user in mind before UX term became mainstream. Crossway between a designer, developer and system architect, he prefers stretching the limit of out-of-the-box features rather than breaking them into code.
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